 Sir John Woodrooffe drew striking similarity of the ritual elements of the two systems – the catholic and Sanskrit terms and made it a virtue rather than of ridicule as had been brought by earlier scholars, the early Orientalist of the West. In p.143

 Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order. The ancients did well, therefore, to invent gods, and the belief in punishment after death.